Re: [Opalvoip-devel] FFMPEG and X264 from source

[Alexander S. <ale...@gm...>]

Sorry. Already answered but as usually with http gmail i forget to reply
into maillist instead of person.
And i think there is no problems with codecs API in last year. Things looks
more or less settled down.


On 7 January 2013 02:47, Robert Jongbloed <ro...@vo...> wrote:

>  I was hoping someone else (Alexander?) that has had more experience than
> me would answer this ...
>
> The versions of FFMPEG are many and it is an ongoing battle with their
> changing API. But such is Open Source. I don't think this question has an
> easy answer.
>
> All I can say is I have always used whatever version of FFMPEG and x264
> came with the distribution (usually Fedora) and have not had any problems.
> Similarly, I have a set of pre-compiled DLL's for Windows that I have been
> using for several years now.
>
> Personally I think you should follow the rule: get the latest version,
> make it work, submit patches if any.
>
> Oh, and I would strongly recommend using 3.10.9, important bugs were
> almost certainly fixed from 3.10.7.
>
> *Robert Jongbloed*
> *OPAL/OpenH323/PTLib Architect and Co-founder.*
> Commercial support at http://www.voxlucida.com.au
>  On 5/01/2013 8:27 AM, Marco Costantini wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>  Question:
>
>  Would someone please confirm which versions of ffmpeg and x264 work with
> opal/ptlib 3.10.7 (ptlib 2.10.7)? The binaries on synaptic are too old i
> believe (opal doesn't like them).
>
>  Background:
>
> I am building ptlib/opal 3.10.7 from source. I would like to also build
> ffmpeg and x264 so that I can use opal's h.264 plugin.
>
>  I am using an ARM processor with Ubuntu 10.04 so the binaries from
> synaptic for ffmpeg and x264 happen to be older than what's found on a
> desktop version of ubuntu 10.04. Using these opal either doesn't recognize
> them (even though the library files are present), or fails to build its
> plugins. (its hard to remember, as I am trying many things.)
>
>  So I've been trying to build ffmpeg and x264 from scratch. They build
> fine, but im getting problems with opal building its plugins. I haven't
> tried H.264 yet but at least the h.263 plugin is having problems being
> built. Opal's configure script does indicate that its located h.263, but
> while building it fails, complaining about avformat.h.
>
>  Please and thank you,
> Marco.
>
>
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